E34 530
01-19-2009, 05:10 PM
So, this is now the fourth gas tank my e34 has seen since I've owned the damn thing.
1st tank (original to the car from the factory)- was absolutely fine until ****ing morons at a tire shop decided it would be a spectacular idea to jack up the car via the tank
2nd tank- idiots from tire place put in the shittiest tank after I refused to take the car back with a hole the size of a dime in it. Seeing as they have 3 brain cells they must have switched the intake/to engine fuel hoses and this resulted in an impoded tank that lasted all of about 1 months before it started to leak. While I'm typing this I'm getting furious I never took any revenge on those ****ers and am concocting an elaborate scheme to **** them over some how. Well, I patched this tank with some JB and it worked surprisingly well...for 4 months. On my way to the e34 2006 Chicago meet the tank decided it wanted to leak again somewhere in about Ohio. We continued on and tried to patch it before the meet in our hotel parking lot. :rofl
Here you can see how ****ed up the tank was and how it wasn;t even close to the straps:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/FXCD0013-1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/FXCD0019.jpg
3rd tank- Due to the greatness of the local Chicago community e34ers, they hooked me up with a free tank and they even put it in for free so I wouldn't have to drive all the way back to NJ with a leaking tank. Now I remember when they were putting it in it had some surface rust and even some rust on the seem but I thought nothing of it. Well, this tank lasted until the summer of 2008. Since the e34 gets one of garage bays, my mom noticed it started to smell like gas in the garage. At first I thought she was just doing her normal bitching about everything routine but sure enough I started to smell it as the weeks went by. I looked at the tank and sure enough it was weeping. Not enough to drip, but enough to soak the assenger side stra and stink up the garage. So at first being a broke cheapass college kid I attempted to patch it which worked for all of 5 minutes before it started seeing again. Also I had put some new injectors in the e28 but stupidly I didn't change the o-rings so sure enough 1 of them started to leak so while I was waiting for the JB to dry I ripped all of them out and did all o-rings and pintel cas. Got this down to a science too, about a half hour to 45 minutes from start to finish. :stickoutt
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0318.jpg
The two tiny holes causing this whole fiasco:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0320.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0325.jpg
Some of the injector o-ring replacement / other whips ;)
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0327.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0329.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0324.jpg
4th tank- So I bit the bullet and bought a nice used tank and I MADE ****ING 100% SURE it didn't have ANY rust, because this was the last and final time I ever wanted to have to do this project again. So on the coldest day of the winter so far, (and on the same day I had to go back to school) I decided to throw in the new tank. I've become so good with the procedure I was able to do it in about 2.5 hours from start to lowering the car back on the ground. It was so ****ing cold I thought I was going to freeze under the car. I got some mild frostbite on the inside of my legs by the old coinurse because it was so cold.
So here are some pics from the coldest I've ever worked on my car with such an extensive project.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0469.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0470.jpg
This was the temp. inside the heated garage, outside temp was 12 with a windchill of -5, I'm praying I never have to do this again while I own this car.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0471.jpg
End of story
1st tank (original to the car from the factory)- was absolutely fine until ****ing morons at a tire shop decided it would be a spectacular idea to jack up the car via the tank
2nd tank- idiots from tire place put in the shittiest tank after I refused to take the car back with a hole the size of a dime in it. Seeing as they have 3 brain cells they must have switched the intake/to engine fuel hoses and this resulted in an impoded tank that lasted all of about 1 months before it started to leak. While I'm typing this I'm getting furious I never took any revenge on those ****ers and am concocting an elaborate scheme to **** them over some how. Well, I patched this tank with some JB and it worked surprisingly well...for 4 months. On my way to the e34 2006 Chicago meet the tank decided it wanted to leak again somewhere in about Ohio. We continued on and tried to patch it before the meet in our hotel parking lot. :rofl
Here you can see how ****ed up the tank was and how it wasn;t even close to the straps:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/FXCD0013-1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/FXCD0019.jpg
3rd tank- Due to the greatness of the local Chicago community e34ers, they hooked me up with a free tank and they even put it in for free so I wouldn't have to drive all the way back to NJ with a leaking tank. Now I remember when they were putting it in it had some surface rust and even some rust on the seem but I thought nothing of it. Well, this tank lasted until the summer of 2008. Since the e34 gets one of garage bays, my mom noticed it started to smell like gas in the garage. At first I thought she was just doing her normal bitching about everything routine but sure enough I started to smell it as the weeks went by. I looked at the tank and sure enough it was weeping. Not enough to drip, but enough to soak the assenger side stra and stink up the garage. So at first being a broke cheapass college kid I attempted to patch it which worked for all of 5 minutes before it started seeing again. Also I had put some new injectors in the e28 but stupidly I didn't change the o-rings so sure enough 1 of them started to leak so while I was waiting for the JB to dry I ripped all of them out and did all o-rings and pintel cas. Got this down to a science too, about a half hour to 45 minutes from start to finish. :stickoutt
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0318.jpg
The two tiny holes causing this whole fiasco:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0320.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0325.jpg
Some of the injector o-ring replacement / other whips ;)
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0327.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0329.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0324.jpg
4th tank- So I bit the bullet and bought a nice used tank and I MADE ****ING 100% SURE it didn't have ANY rust, because this was the last and final time I ever wanted to have to do this project again. So on the coldest day of the winter so far, (and on the same day I had to go back to school) I decided to throw in the new tank. I've become so good with the procedure I was able to do it in about 2.5 hours from start to lowering the car back on the ground. It was so ****ing cold I thought I was going to freeze under the car. I got some mild frostbite on the inside of my legs by the old coinurse because it was so cold.
So here are some pics from the coldest I've ever worked on my car with such an extensive project.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0469.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0470.jpg
This was the temp. inside the heated garage, outside temp was 12 with a windchill of -5, I'm praying I never have to do this again while I own this car.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/ripcurl530/2009_0119Image0471.jpg
End of story